On the forthcoming elections
Just because some groups have begun to entangle me in their various pre election scenarios I am forced to clarify: Firstly that I am not putting myself forward for political office and
Secondly, that I intend to vote Left. Of course I would have wished for there to be an understanding among its leadership in order to have a uniform return to the election process. However, even if this proves to be impossible I believe that the left as an independent party, must find itself strengthened in the next Parliament for the good of democracy, civilisation and most importantly for the benefit of the workers.
Besides, the recent international events with the war in Iraq have revived the problems of Independence and of Peace as key problems for the people. Evidenced by unprecedented mass protest gatherings in all countries of the world, as in our own. And yet these problems which are as fatal and so vital for our people are carefully concealed by those who will gain from concealing them.
And good on them, because the only power that could raise an opposition point of view, is the Left. The Left, who with one especially uniform presence can provide the opportunity for expression for all those people who would like to endorse this opposition with their vote.
I still believe that in this time of artificial polarization, in the overall picture and of directed publication that an inadvertent uniform presence of the factions of the Left would give a platform and voice to hundreds of thousands of orphaned voters who are suffocating before election practices that demean, repulse and insult them.
Finally, I am sad, truly for those who have not yet realised that in the forthcoming elections it is not only the risk of a greater presence of the Left in the Parliament but the anticipation of the condescension of its very ideal.
Athens, 17.1.2004
Mikis Theodorakis
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